Clone repo SSH from GitHub to Ubuntu EC2 AWS

We learning to generate SSH key in Ubuntu 22 and create deploy key in GitHub that clone repository in our server with SSH.

Step 1. Generate Key to server

In first step, we require to get key using bellow command, So open your terminal or command prompt and run bellow command:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@gmail.com" -b 4096
or
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your_email@gmail.com"

Show the created key

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Copy the key

Step 2. Create Deploy Key

In your GitHub repository go to https://github.com/settings/ssh/new and create a new key.

If the deploy key is created successful will be display in the SSH and GPG keys list, so now we are ready to clone our repository.

Step 3. Clone the repository

So run bellow command to clone the repository:

git clone git@github.com:yourusername/your-repo.git

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